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re: Today is the 45th anniversary of the worst day of my life

Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:00 am to
Posted by auggie
Opelika, Alabama
Member since Aug 2013
28139 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:00 am to
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tigahland

Thank you. He didn't drink though.
Posted by Cliff Booth
Member since Feb 2021
2559 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:00 am to
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Wrong. Time heals nothing. In my experience you never “get over” losing someone close to you, but you eventually get better at dealing with it.


Agreed. The “time heals” is more about you learning to adapt to your new life better as time goes on.

But time also makes you miss the person you lost more and more.
Posted by caro81
Member since Jul 2017
4953 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:01 am to
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The first 24 hours I ever spent Without talking to my Dad.


My dad and i are very close. As i get older and watch him get older i find myself wondering when this day will come for me. The passage of time sucks.

RIP to your father.
Posted by Gorilla Ball
Member since Feb 2006
11775 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:02 am to
We are coming upon the one year anniversary of our dad passing? It’s a bummer
Posted by Honest Tune
Louisiana
Member since Dec 2011
15794 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:02 am to
You seem like a cool cat, baw. Give credit to your pops for that and appreciate the memories.
Posted by tigernurse
Member since Dec 2005
30375 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:02 am to
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I was 16. The last thing he did was give me money for school, and watched my brother and sister get in the Eldorado before we left.





auggie,

I am vv sorry for the loss of your father. It seems the older we get, the more we realize the just how much was lost in losing a parent at a young age.


Posted by LaLadyinTx
Cypress, TX
Member since Nov 2018
6073 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:04 am to
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everybody tells him time heals everything,


I hate this saying

It’s bullshite. Time doesn’t heal anything


Correct. Time doesn't heal it. Time just makes you learn how to live with that gaping hole.
Posted by auggie
Opelika, Alabama
Member since Aug 2013
28139 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:17 am to
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You seem like a cool cat, baw.

I'm not. My Dad though, he was the coolest of cool.
I'm a failure compared to him.
Posted by Honest Tune
Louisiana
Member since Dec 2011
15794 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:18 am to
The apple don’t roll too damn far from the tree
Posted by motoxfmx27
Member since Nov 2011
156 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:18 am to
I'm sorry for you because I know how you feel. My dad passed away September 6th of this year. If I make it to my dad's age, I will have lived my entire life up to this point over again. It's scary to think about living so long without my dad. I know he wouldn't have let me, but I would have traded places with him faster than I can blink my eye. I love you, Dad.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
261531 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:25 am to
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I'm a failure compared to him.


You seem way more well adjusted than most.
Posted by TheDeathValley
New Orleans, LA
Member since Sep 2010
17198 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:29 am to
Lost my dad in 2001, I was younger then, but I still find myself asking if he is proud how things turned out.
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
I'm your huckleberry
Member since Apr 2008
34488 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:30 am to
Lost my mom two years ago, hardest day of my life. We were in an accident together so I have this guilt that I was responsible for her death. I was a mommas boy too. It's brutal living every day with a feeling like you're the reason she's gone. It was an accident, there was nothing I could have done, but that still doesn't help.

Last month we lost my 18 year old nephew. The pain of losing him is hard to describe. He was my sisters whole world, I honestly don't know how a parent goes on after that. With my mom, we were at least able to say she lived until she was 70, and she's not in any pain any more. We took comfort in things. Losing an 18 year old child. Man. There ain't much to take comfort in. He was in his first semester of college and had the world ahead of him. Life just isn't fair.
Posted by auggie
Opelika, Alabama
Member since Aug 2013
28139 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:33 am to
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You seem way more well adjusted than most.

Thank you Roger, all I can do is try.
Posted by Dubosed
Gulf Breeze
Member since Nov 2012
7063 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:36 am to
We lost a 2 year old son many years ago. Seeing someone so small hurt so bad and there isn't anything you can do about it... I still think about him quite a bit.
Posted by dukke v
PLUTO
Member since Jul 2006
203361 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:37 am to
I’m not sure I could handle that.
Posted by makersmark1
earth
Member since Oct 2011
15970 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:40 am to
Sounds like he was a man worth missing.

It’s hard to lose people, but it would be even sadder if you had nobody that loved you or you loved enough to cry when one of you is gone.

I miss my daddy too.
Posted by Cliff Booth
Member since Feb 2021
2559 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:48 am to
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We lost a 2 year old son many years ago.


Very sorry for your loss. Pains me to know that anyone has to experience that. I’m sure I speak for many when I say it’s my greatest fear.

The fact that you keep going and can talk about it shows strength and fortitude that I’m sure your family benefits from. Hope you can take solace in that.
Posted by auggie
Opelika, Alabama
Member since Aug 2013
28139 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:48 am to
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Sounds like he was a man worth missing.


3 thousand people came to his 1st funeral. Created an emergency situation in Athens, Alabama.
Posted by CSATiger
The Battlefield
Member since Aug 2010
6225 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:49 am to
mine has been gone since 85m he died young. My mon 7 years ago, think abiut them both every day
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